Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very glad to sign a card for the renewal of my subscription to TIME for two years. This is one magazine that I read that never goes in the wastebasket. After I have finished with a copy I pass it on to a friend who is not a subscriber, two or three of which I know have become subscribers after reading my copy...
...regime has been successful, partly because he blended efficiency with tradition: it would have been dangerous to apply rigid card-index methods to the University of Virginia, where Southern bloods are wont to loll on the lawn and contemplate the architectural works of Founder Thomas Jefferson...
...simplicity. That done, he reverts to the thrilling intensity of Java Head, and recounts in a series of story-sketches the drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman's plantation, only to lose it through the backbiting of a jealous mulatto woman...
...report is impractical. It collides with the difficulties of congestion, even more abruptly than the present system: the adviser would be compelled to give lengthy and comprehensive conferences in the spring, when he is either correcting final theses, preparing groups of Seniors for divisional, or working on the study card conferences of Sophomores and Juniors. Two fifteen-minute conferences separated by and interval of six months give negligible returns in mutual acquaintance. The solution, then, seems to lie in an increase of advisory conferences...
Lawrence Trever Grimm '29, of Los Angeles, Cal., has been elected vice-president of the Harvard Union for the coming academic year. In the recent postal-card balloting Grimm received 298 votes, while K. D. Robinson '29 and H. F. Schwarz '29, other nominees for the position, received 220 and 73 votes respectively...